Meat For The Beast - Podcast

The Beastmasters kick off the new year with the awards for 2016. 'The Greasy Strangler' is a no-brainer for Best Motion Picture but who will win the prestigious Trousers Down Award???

A festive ep kicks off with some S-List nominations. McV takes an anti-social stance to social media and Jim sabotages his own Christmas by hunting his own gifts down. The Grimsby Lantern returns in a blaze of glory to promote an upcoming Team-Up with his pod - DEF CAST!

Jim & McV attempt a Horror Special. Badly Drawn Boy comes to Jim's house for a brew, the John Carpenter live in Manc debacle is discussed and kid's favorite Stickman makes the S-List. Horror-core awesomeness throughout courtesy of OGRE!

Jim & McV return to discuss the fictional Mars based brother of John Carpenter, before reviewing Killing Joke and Suicide Squad. Closing track by Leicester noise rockers 'The Surrealists' from their upcoming Terrortoma EP.

Jim and McV return in a quagmire of outrageous self-pity as they pull back the curtain on their lives, followed by all the latest reviews. Closing track by the awesome synthwave outfit 'Zombie Hyperdrive' with kind permission by New Retro Wave Records.

The Beastmasters give their take on BvS in this mammoth length episode. Jim also does a post film field-trip pod with special guest Jay Darien Smith. Closing music by rowdy Manc metalheads 'Murder on the Airwaves'.

In honor of Dr Helen Sharman (the first Briton in space - 1991)Jim adds space chancer Tim Peake to the rebooted S-List for his under-whelming space walk. Amongst reviews of Deadpool & Marvel's Star Wars comic reboot, the Beastmasters say farewell to 3 legends and rag on a few undesirables of the social media world. Long time MFTB listener James Wainwright chimes in with some stern words for McV regarding his irreverent take on Star Wars Ep4. Closing track by Edinburgh based songwriter Van Tastik!

The Beastmasters kick off 2016 with a SPOILER HEAVY chat about Star Wars past & present. They also re-enact a cinematic scene with clinical accuracy. The closing track 'Wise as a Wookie' comes from punk-rock outfit Dagobah.

The Beastmasters give their take on some of the horror offerings of 2015, including a review of the the Celluloid Screams Film Fest. McV reveals he can do a adept impersonation of voodoo crime-lord King Willie.

Whilst McV takes a brief sabbatical Jim chats with film-makers Rene' Dorset & Terry Sallgold about their notorious Rockumentary about Sheffield punks The Friends of Batman. Things take a dark turn for the worse as their dubious personal associations are discussed.